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Tripartite FTA’s sugar industries vow to eliminate trade associated problems
8-Sep-2015 Swazi Observer
In a bid to eliminate possible problems associated with sugar trade in Africa’s new trade agreement, the Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA), sugar industries of the bloc have resolved to speak in one unified voice.
Lawmaker claims Korean agriculture sector will sustain much more damage than Government estimates
7-Sep-2015 Business Korea
The Korea-China FTA will increase agricultural imports from China while scaling down Korea’s farming production.
TTIP vs food sovereignty
2-Sep-2015 Contributoria
TTIP threatens our food future. In addition to campaigning against it, we need to work towards an alternative framework.
TPP, TTIP, organic equivalencies — trade...
1-Sep-2015 Food Dive
TPP, TTIP, organic equivalencies — trade agreements have been all over the headlines for the past few months. But what is the impact for food and beverage companies in the U.S.?
EU weighs up possible trade deal with world No.1 dairy exporter
31-Aug-2015 Dairy Markets
The move, which would also include a possible trade deal with Australia, may be part of a new ‘communication’ on future EU trade policy, set to be published this autumn, reports Agra Europe’s Paul Hutchison.
Australian food labelling laws: changes and complexities for foreign trade
28-Aug-2015 Holding Redlich
Changes to Australian food labelling laws provide consumers with an increased understanding of the origin of their food. The challenge Australia faces is to ensure compliance with foreign investment trade agreements.
Tafta, Pac, crise de l’élevage : « Les revendications de la Fnsea ne sont pas tenables »
28-Aug-2015 Terre-net
Laurent Pinatel, le porte-parole de la Confédération paysanne, défend ses revendications pour sortir les éleveurs de la crise, évidemment différentes de celles du syndicalisme majoritaire
Alphachat podcast: Joe Stiglitz on minimum wage, monetary policy, TPP and more
26-Aug-2015 FT Alphaville
Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize-winning economist, discusses TPP.
TPP set to devour Vietnamese livestock
26-Aug-2015 AAP
TPP members such as the US, Canada, New Zealand, Japan and Australia will undoubtedly swallow the livestock industry in one big gulp, Nguyen Duc Thanh, director of the Vietnam Institute for Economic and Policy Research says, putting the livelihoods of 10 million Vietnamese family farmers at risk.
TTIP between US and EU ‘threatens Maltese farmers and consumers’
23-Aug-2015 Malta Independent
The TTIP deal between the European Union (EU) and the United States (US) could have a considerable impact on the way in which food and commodities are produced, traded and regulated, with impacts for farmers and consumers on both sides of the Atlantic.
Agriculteurs : les raisons de la colère !
21-Aug-2015 Agoravox
Les agriculteurs se retrouvent pris en étau entre d’une part la baisse des prix payés pour leur production et d’autre part la course au rendement, dans une fuite en avant de la production agricole transformée en agro-industrie.
L’accord commercial entre le Kenya et l’Ouganda est entré en vigueur
21-Aug-2015 Star Africa
L’Ouganda est prêt à mettre en œuvre l’accord commercial bilatéral que les présidents Yoweri Museveni et Uhuru Kenyatta ont signé.
The perfect pinta vs. the TTIP trade tanker
21-Aug-2015 The Ecologist
Britain’s dairy farmers have been having a hard time largely thanks to their exposure to an unregulated, unstable, global food market.
Zeybekci suggests renewal of FTA with Serbia, BiH
19-Aug-2015 Daily Sabah
Turkey is ready to the fullest extent to expand the free trade agreements to the service, public, food, agriculture and e-commerce sectors
Ex-minister seeks to outlaw TPP
18-Aug-2015 Agri HQ
Not content with suing the Japanese government, a lawyer and former Japanese agriculture minister has been leading a group who filed a lawsuit against the Japanese government
Chicken war with US shows free trade threat to Vietnamese farmers
18-Aug-2015
Hanoi chicken farmer Nguyen Huu Tuyen blames inexpensive poultry imported from the US for the loss of almost $14,000 this year.
Tariff cuts, exemptions for Vietnam-EU FTA clarified
17-Aug-2015 Vietnamnet Bridge
The European Union (EU) will remove 85.6% of tariff lines for Vietnam’s goods exports immediately after a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) between the two sides comes into force.
La marché du porc : un problème politique européen !
14-Aug-2015 Economie Matin
Ce n’est pas au niveau national, table ronde ou pas au ministère de l’Agriculture, que le problème pourra se résoudre.
TPP in trouble: why we can win this fight!
14-Aug-2015 Friends of the Earth
Time is running out for a congressional vote on a completed TPP deal during President Obama’s term of office.
Why Europe and the US are locked in a food fight over TTIP
8-Aug-2015 The Conversation
It is not certain whether TTIP will relent and grant European food products even the limited protection they have under CETA